pantoum's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOWING THE SCENT OF A WOMAN My pal Fiddlergrrl recently pulled out a thin volume of Adrienne Rich poetry that she'd read in college and realized that it provides a yardstick by which she can measure how much she has changed. The poems seemed angry to her—but, of course, she had changed, not the poems. They poems were exactly the same. Interesting how we often traverse an angry/reactionary domain before we settle into a place with less anger and more acceptance ... but with a firmer grasp of our beliefs, our convictions. I had similar experiences with some of Muriel Rukeyser's poetry and find some of it too strident now (although I admire her commitment to being a poet/activist). LISTENING TO: ani defranco (at the moment her version of Amazing Grace, which is just fucking amazing) READING: Red's answers to my 100 compatibility questions. Fun! 7:45 p.m. - 2005-03-16 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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